Ruby Sisson Library

A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.

Benji, the hunted: Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Rascal: A boy, a dog, and a pet raccoon provide merriment for the family. Where the red fern grows: A young boy longs for his own red-bone hunting dogs. The journey of Natty Gann: In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away.

In 1789, the year Annie Henry turns sixteen, her family moves to Leatherwood on the frontier and eventually she goes to Richmond, where she gets a close look at the Revolutionary War.

On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.

A father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades. Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love...

"A story of family secrets, broken relationships, and a love strong enough to span a nation"--Provided by publisher.

Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lucía watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her papá's--return. A...

Contains two stories featuring the boisterous Ramona Quimby, including "Beezus and Ramona," in which four-year-old Ramona's imagination makes her a menace to everyone--especially her older sister, Beezus; and "Ramona and her Father," in which Ramona tries to help her dad when he loses his job and starts smoking too much.